Word: naval
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese crew, who took to the lifeboats and were rescued by Japanese fishermen, excitedly insisted in sign language that their ship had been pursued by a submarine and hit by three torpedoes. But to Japanese naval authorities their story seemed as full of holes as the Leap Forward herself. If the ship had really been torpedoed, they pointed out, its 59-man crew could hardly have escaped without the loss of a single life. Besides, who would want to sink an unarmed merchantman? The U.S. announced that it, for one, had no subs in the area. A more logical explanation...
Climaxing a two-year investigation, a commission of inquiry in Colombo accused 22 Ceylonese navy officers-the cream of the top naval leadership-of conspiring to smuggle a treasure-trove of contraband into the country. Chief among them is the former naval chief of staff, Rear Admiral Royce de Mel, 47. When he sailed grandly home from a 1960 goodwill cruise in Asian waters, the commission charged, the magazines of De Mel's flagship and an escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where...
Deep in a dial-studded cabinet on the Navy's test ship Compass Island lies a hollow sphere of beryllium no bigger than a baseball. It has no visible means of support, yet it spins at 30,000 r.p.m. Awed naval technicians call it a "star in a bottle," and they count on that man-made star to tell nuclear submarines exactly where they are, even after months of cruising in black ocean deeps...
...Cuban affair of a different stripe was plaguing the U.S. last week. The story had leaked that a Castro agent, working as a bus driver on Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba, was shot and killed in 1961 by Marine Captain Arthur J. Jackson, a Medal of Honor winner in World War II. The marine officer had fired in self-defense, reported Jack Anderson in the syndicated "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column, and then recruited four other marine officers and six enlisted men to help him dispose of the body. The U.S. made a pro forma apology to Castro. Then, Anderson...
Reviewed in grim detail were the technical problems that had kept Thresher in overhaul for nine months at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The sub's defects, witnesses insisted, were remedied before the ship took to sea for its post-overhaul cruise. But, tragically and all too obviously, something did in fact go wrong. And the list of Thresher's troubles was indeed formidable. Items...